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I think you'd be surprised how nice it is to have a team of producers and camera operators doing the work of finding the interesting views for you. People atten

• jonknee 11y ago
  Though a court side camera at a basketball game would make an interesting vantage point... People definitely do sit court side for the view.
• bigiain 11y ago
  That's true - but for my preferred sport (motorcycle racing) sometimes it'd be _really_ nice to not have to "settle" for the producers choices of what to see (that last MotoGP race had, from memory, 3 critical overtaking manoeuvres happen while the producer had decided to cut away to showing the team/girlfriend in the pit garage). We don't have the bandwidth (yet), but I dream of the day when there's a cluster of camera arrays (similar to that 16 GoPro rig) at every on track vantage point (the current camera locations would be fine to start with), with a few hundred video streams coming out of the race track and the option to use whatever smart software you can buy/subscribe-to/write, or even maybe get a curated feed from someone other than the on-track producer. The World Superbike Championship telecast is already using some pretty good image processing software to paint real-time telemtery overlays onto a bike in the video feed - it's still making mistakes, but it's pretty impressively good considering it's happening honest-to-god-live. (I can't find any public videos to link to there, sorry - Dorna are obviously really good about sending takedown notices to Youtube, and all the good video on their own site is behind their paywall...)